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The Right Stuff

2022-03-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·40m 41s ·by WNYC Studios
The Right Stuff
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About this episode

Since the beginning of the space program, we’ve always expected astronauts to be fully abled athletic overachievers who are one-part science-geek, two-parts triathlete – a mix the writer Tom Wolfe famously called “the right stuff.” But what if, this whole time, we’ve had it all wrong? In this episod